MITRAL RUMBLES

 

 

By Dr. Ross Feldman,
Medical Lead,
Cardiac Sciences Manitoba

February 02, 2020

CSP News

Rakesh Arora giving the keynote speech

Congrats to Rakesh Arora who gave the keynote critique of the J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper for Adult Cardiac Surgery “Evaluating the Role of Failure to Rescue on Mortality after Cardiac Surgery: A National Experience” at the Society of Thoracic Surgery annual meeting in New Orleans last week.

The first MitraClip ever performed in Manitoba was successfully completed by a multidisciplinary team led by Malek Kass. Congrats to everyone involved.

Publications by our Faculty this Week

Yeang C, Hasanally D, Que X, Hung MY, Stamenkovic A, Chan D, Chaudhary R, Margulets V, Edel AL, Hoshijima M, Gu Y, Bradford W, Dalton N, Miu P, Cheung DY, Jassal DS, Pierce GN, Peterson KL, Kirshenbaum LA, Witztum JL, Tsimikas S, Ravandi A. Reduction of myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion injury by inactivating oxidized phospholipids. Cardiovasc Res. 2019 Jan 1;115(1):179-189. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvy136.